There was a quote, misattributed to Abraham Lincoln and meant to be derogatory, "people who like this sort of thing will find this is the sort of thing that they like."
Precisely, although without undertones of dismissal. If you enjoy reading critical academic treatments on topics you want to know more about, this book is a really good example of the genre. Harari is consistently coherent and makes it very clear when he is providing information and advancing an argument.
I thought the beginning, where he articulates and opines on the problem of defining magic, was particularly helpful and the last chapter was the most interesting to me, as a scholar and collector of rabbinic narratives.
Yeah, if this is your thing, this is a great thing.
Also, serious shout-out to Batya Stein for the translation. Translating academia is never easy and part of the reason I think this work was so readable was the effort she made to make sure that she wasn't writing just for people who expect to find sentences confusing.